Employees face a higher risk of injury during Winter months. Course topics include preventing slips and falls, hazard controls, and workers compensation.
Employees working in Winter months
Beryllium awareness training is for those who work with or are in spaces with potential exposure to Beryllium and Beryllium compounds.
Students, employees, and visiting researchers
This course offers resources to reduce heat-related hazards and illness in outdoor and indoor work environments.
View the UW-Madison training video (5 min.) and register below for more resources.
Supervisors and employees at risk for heat illness
Employees who work with chemicals need to have the tools and knowledge to work with those chemicals safely. This short training is for supervisors, facility managers, and others who need to develop a hazard communication plan for their work site. The main components of a hazard communication plan that are discussed here include chemical/product inventories, safety data sheets, labeling products, training, and facility visits.
This short training is for facilities personnel who need to dispose of common items such as batteries, light bulbs, ballasts, and various types of oil.
This course is intended for anyone who conducts or coordinates facility maintenance or remodeling (other than people who conduct actual lead abatement or remediation).
The Lead Awareness training will cover what lead is, where it comes from, its properties, and its historical perspectives. Upon completion of the course, users should be able to identify common materials that may contain lead or lead compounds.
To schedule an appointment call Chris Heidel at (608) 575-3628.
Comprehensive course to explain what asbestos is, the difference(s) between “friable” and “non-friable” asbestos, the health effects relating to contact, procedures for controlling and reporting asbestos exposure, and the identification of building materials containing asbestos.
This course is meant for anyone who does not perform abatement tasks, but occasionally works around asbestos.
To schedule an appointment call Chris Heidel at (608) 575-3628.
Workplace Safety is a umbrella course including modules such as Lockout/Tagout, Aerial Lift and other topics for operational staff.
Contact karl.stelzer@wisc.edu for job-specific training.
This course covers the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS). You will learn about GHS pictograms and hazard classes and how to read chemical labels and safety data sheets. This course should be taken by anyone who works with chemicals.
Everyone who works with chemicals
This in-person class teaches you how to work safely with hazardous materials in a non-lab environment.
All departments on UW-Madison campus that work with or use hazardous chemicals in a non-laboratory environment (such as art studios, printing operations, custodial operations, etc.) must implement a Hazard Communication Program as per the Hazard Communication Standard, CFR 1910,1200 and Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals.
Everyone who works with chemicals